* 1683 – Manchu Qing Dynasty naval forces under traitorous commander Shi Lang defeat the Kingdom of Tungning in the Battle of Penghu near the Pescadores Islands.

* 1683 – The Qing Dynasty naval commander Shi Lang reaches Taiwan ( under the Kingdom of Tungning ) to receive the formal surrender of Zheng Keshuang and Liu Guoxuan after the Battle of Penghu.

In 1683, following a naval engagement with Admiral Shi Lang, one of Koxinga's father's trusted friends, Koxinga's grandson Zheng Keshuang submitted to Qing Dynasty control.

In 1683, following a naval engagement with Admiral Shi Lang, Koxinga's ( Cheng Ch ' eng Kung ) grandson Zheng Keshuang and ruler of Taiwan submitted to the Qing Dynasty ( then romanised as Ch ' ing Dynasty ).

On 8 July 1683, after extensive preparation, Shi led a force of 300 warships and 20, 000 soldiers out of Tongshan, Fujian.

The pirates Van Hoorn, Laurens de Graaf and Michel de Grammont attacked Vera Cruz in 1683.

In 1683, French pirates attacked Cumberland Island, looting and burning many of the buildings.

In 1683, the Qing staged an amphibious assault on southern Taiwan, bringing down the rebel Grand Duchy of Tungning, which was founded by the Ming loyalist Koxinga in 1662 after the fall of the Southern Ming, and had served as a base for continued Ming resistance in Southern China.

Taiwan was officially regarded by Qing Emperor Kangxi as " a ball of mud beyond the pale of civilization " and did not appear on any map of the imperial domain until 1683.

From 1683, the Qing Dynasty ruled Taiwan as a prefecture and in 1875 divided the island into two prefectures, north and south.

From 1683 to around 1760, the Qing government limited immigration to Taiwan.

After the Qing government defeated the Ming loyalist forces maintained by the Zheng family in 1683, parts of Taiwan became increasingly integrated into the Qing Empire.

The Kingdom of Tungning, lasting from 1661 to 1683, was the first Han Chinese government to rule Taiwan.

From 1683, the Qing Dynasty ruled Taiwan as a prefecture and in 1875 divided the island into two prefectures.

On the other hand, a number of supporters of Taiwan independence argue that Taiwan was only formally incorporated as a Chinese territory under the Qing Dynasty in 1683, and as a province in 1885.

Taiwan was first brought under the control of Zheng Chenggong, a Ming-loyalist, in 1662, before being incorporated by the Qing Dynasty in 1683.

** Kingdom of Tungning ( Taiwan, with Han Chinese rulers ) ( 1662 – 1683 )

China gained control of Taiwan in 1683, but the Portuguese and Spanish maintained a hold on trade with Chinese cities ; the Portuguese operated from Macau and other cities, the Spanish controlled Manila.

The Zheng family of Tungning surrendered in October 1683 and Taiwan became part of the Qing Empire.

He was commander-in-chief of the Manchu fleets which destroyed the power of the Zheng family in the 1660s, and led the conquest of the Kingdom of Tungning ( 東寧王國 ) on Taiwan in 1683.

Taiwan was formally incorporated into the Qing Dynasty in 1683.

In 1683 following the Qing dynasty conquest of Taiwan the area was incorporated into Zhuluo County.

“ Taiwan Under the Cheng Family, 1662 – 1683: Sinicization After Dutch Rule .” Ph. D. dissertation, Georgetown University.

The Kingdom of Tungning () was a government that ruled Taiwan between 1661 and 1683.

In 1683 after the Battle of Penghu, Qing troops landed in Taiwan, Zheng Keshuang gave in to the Qing Dynasty's demand of surrender, and his kingdom was incorporated into the Qing Empire as part of Fujian province, ending two decades of rule by the Zheng family.

He succeeded his father Zheng Jing in 1681 as third King of Tungning ( 東寧 ) and surrendered Taiwan to Qing Dynasty forces in 1683.

After the port in the Siraya area of Taiwan was annexed in 1683 by Qing Dynasty China, a process of gradual acculturation led to the Siraya language falling out of use.

The British public had their first chance to view a rhinoceros ( presumably this species ) in 1683 ; it unknowingly caused a political row when the notorious Judge Jeffreys, in one of his lighter moments, spread a rumour that his chief rival, Lord Guildford, had been seen riding on it.

About the year 1683, Abul Hasan Qutb Shah appears to have become irregular in payments of taxes to the Mughals and his relations with Sikandar Adil Shah also caused concern among the Mughals.

From the time China was brought under the rule of the Qing dynasty ( 1644 – 1683 ), the banner soldiers became more professional and bureaucratized.

The Torwa dynasty of the baKalanga people based itself at the stone city of Khami from 1450 to 1683.

The kingdom was governed by the Torwa dynasty until 1683 from its capital at Khami.

This structural change in the commodity composition of the VOC's trade started in the early 1680s, after the temporary collapse of the EIC around 1683 offered an excellent opportunity to enter these markets.

The Ottomans had suffered partial military collapse against the Austrians in the 1680s, most notably at the Battle of Vienna in 1683, and the loss of Belgrade to Maximilian II of Bavaria in 1688 and Bosnia in 1689.

* 1613 – Stjepan Gradić, Croatian philosopher and scientist ( d. 1683 )

* 1593 – Izaak Walton, English author ( d. 1683 )

* 1653 – John Oldham, English poet ( d. 1683 )

* 1683 – Jean-Joseph Mouret, French composer ( d. 1738 )

* 1643 – Afonso VI of Portugal ( d. 1683 )

* 1619 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French politician ( d. 1683 )

* 1683 – Johann David Heinichen, German composer and theorist ( d. 1729 )

His early operas ( Gli equivoci nel sembiante 1679 ; L ’ honestà negli amori 1680, containing the famous aria " Già il sole dal Gange "; Il Pompeo 1683, containing the well-known airs " O cessate di piagarmi " and " Toglietemi la vita ancor ," and others down to about 1685 ) retain the older cadences in their recitatives, and a considerable variety of neatly constructed forms in their charming little arias, accompanied sometimes by the string quartet, treated with careful elaboration, sometimes with the continuo alone.

* Queen Caroline, consort of King George II of Great Britain was born in Ansbach in 1683.

He married his first wife, Anne Child, in about 1677 in Ecton and emigrated with her to Boston in 1683 ; they had three children before emigrating, and four after.

The first to use pound locks was the Briare Canal connecting the Loire and Seine ( 1642 ), followed by the more ambitious Canal du Midi ( 1683 ) connecting the Atlantic to the Mediterranean.

" The Compleat Cook's Guide " published in 1683 made reference to cranberry juice.

* 1683 – Izaak Walton, English writer ( b. 1593 )

* 1609 – Philip Warwick, English writer and politician ( d. 1683 )

* 1683 – Conyers Middleton, English minister ( d. 1750 )

He first saw action against the Ottoman Turks at the Siege of Vienna in 1683 and the subsequent War of the Holy League, before serving in the Nine Years ' War, fighting alongside his cousin, the Duke of Savoy.

" In February 1683, to the surprise of his family, Eugene declared his intention of joining the army.

One of Eugene's brothers, Louis Julius, had entered Imperial service the previous year, but he had been immediately killed fighting the Ottoman Turks in 1683.

On the night of 26 July 1683, Eugene left Paris and headed east.

By May 1683 the Ottoman threat to Emperor Leopold I's capital, Vienna, was very real.

His fourth brother, Emmanuel, had died aged 14 in 1676 ; his third, Louis Julius ( already mentioned ) had died on active service in 1683, and his second brother, Philippe, died of smallpox in 1693.

* 1744 – John Theophilus Desaguliers, French philosopher ( b. 1683 )

* 1612 – Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist ( d. 1683 )

* 1683 – Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian painter ( d. 1754 )